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Overview

The source of the Nile river starts in the Rwenzoris, Africa’s tallest mountain range that stretch across western Uganda shrouded in mist and teeming with glaciers, waterfalls and alpine lakes. These ‘mountain’s of the moon’ are the home of Uganda’s mountain gorillas and tracking them through this majestic habitat is one of the country’s most iconic experiences. 

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • Waters of Murchison Falls.

    Top of the Falls

    Uganda

    Once described as the most spectacular thing to happen to the Nile along its 6700km length, the 50m wide Victoria Nile is squeezed here through a 6m gap…

  • A rainbow arches over the spectacular Murchison Falls, Uganda, Africa

    Murchison Falls National Park

    Uganda

    Uganda’s largest national park is one of its very best; animals are in plentiful supply and the raging Murchison Falls, where the Victoria Nile crashes…

  • Burchell s zebra in Kidepo National Park, a park set in a semi arid wilderness of spectacular beauty in the far north of Uganda, bordering Southern Sudan.

    Kidepo Valley National Park

    Uganda

    Offering some of the most stunning scenery of any protected area in Uganda, Kidepo Valley National Park is hidden away in a lost valley in the extreme…

  • Mengo Palace

    Kampala

    Built in 1922, this small palace is the former home of the king of Buganda, though it has remained empty since 1966 when Prime Minister Milton Obote…

  • A chimpanzee in the Budongo Forest in the Murchison Falls National Park.

    Budongo Forest Reserve

    Uganda

    The Budongo Forest Reserve is a large (825-sq-km) tract of virgin tropical forest on the southern fringes of Murchison Falls National Park. Its main…

  • Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

    Uganda

    The Big Five are back. In 2005, Rhino Fund Uganda opened this private 70-sq-km reserve, 170km northwest of Kampala, about 30 years after poachers shot the…

  • Kasubi Tombs

    Kampala

    The Unesco World Heritage–listed Kasubi Tombs are of great significance to the Buganda kingdom as the burial place of its kings and royal family. The huge…

  • Parliament House

    Kampala

    Open to the public, a visit to parliament is an interesting way to spend an hour or two. You can either tour the building or see the government in action …

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